[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Darkstar Adventurecast, where the stars are cold.
[SPEAKER_02]: The void is endless, and dangers lurk in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Out here, trust is a gamble, and survival is never guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_02]: On tonight's Adventurecast.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been to civil and before.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, this is turning out to be a far more interesting trip than the last one already.
[SPEAKER_05]: valuable goods, alien artifacts, hidden away, but that sounds attractive to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Would you say this discovery might be worth a lot of no at least one point two million?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I know we're trying to get out of here quickly, but there's no way we can walk away from this now the potential Profit is I just I can't I don't know I'm walk a couple steps away and just kind of crouch down So sit back and enjoy this is the dark star adventure cast
[SPEAKER_02]: All hands aboard the scapegoat are on the bridge, as Robert pulls a ship out of meta-dimensional space alongside the planet's sibling.
[SPEAKER_02]: The last outpost on the fringest civilized space.
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy is practically vibrating with excitement as he strains over Robert's shoulder to get the glimpse of the planet on the view screen.
[SPEAKER_06]: a swat froggy's hand away.
[SPEAKER_06]: Get your grubby little mits off that.
[SPEAKER_06]: These are delicate instruments.
[SPEAKER_04]: Froggy get away from there, get away from there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I grab froggy and I like pulling away.
[SPEAKER_04]: Come on, Robert, give my break.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's just excited.
[SPEAKER_04]: He hasn't seen this woman in what, like, 25 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not just a random person, my best friend.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still have the letter that I wrote her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy pulls the letter from this pocket.
[SPEAKER_02]: You recognize it immediately as the letter he wrote back on Walfisa and asked you to deliver to his friend-off world if you ever so happen to run into her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Though, I guess I can just catch her up on everything in person.
[SPEAKER_02]: With my own actual voice this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the waste returns.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, not a second.
[SPEAKER_05]: Froggy, you haven't heard from her?
[SPEAKER_05]: In 25 years?
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you even know she's still there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, we were writing over the exonette until a guardian shut it down, but she's here all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: And boy, will she be surprised to see me, froggy, in the flesh?
[SPEAKER_02]: If we didn't need fuel, we wouldn't be stopping at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: At this, the bridges speakers click on as Dr. Voss Chimes and talk to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't forget who's paying for this mission, Robert.
[SPEAKER_02]: Simlin is where the first alien artifacts were discovered seven years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is no way in hell I would miss the opportunity to see it for myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what's more, Rocky's friend Fira is a doctor of Sino Archaeology, who works for Lycar, a research court I've always admired.
[SPEAKER_02]: I bet she has all sorts of interesting things for us to check out.
[SPEAKER_06]: A bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Research?
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, Hayley, don't you have any wonder for the universe?
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there's proof on this planet that Hayley insists.
[SPEAKER_05]: Isn't that enough to excite you even just a little bit?
[SPEAKER_00]: Excitement?
[SPEAKER_00]: Tristible in?
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been here before, just another dusty planet on the edge of space.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this time it's special, Hayley.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because Vera is here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm bragging.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure Vera is a hoot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Probably, I'm a, I'm with Haley on this one.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't forget, we have a tail.
[SPEAKER_06]: Probably still following us ever since we left Waffesa.
[SPEAKER_06]: Veridine's risk management won't be forgetting about us that easy.
[SPEAKER_06]: The sooner we can spike out of this place, I mean, you know it's gonna be better.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a good point, Robert, but we've been in meta space for a long time and all of us could use a break.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's just try to keep this visit short.
[SPEAKER_04]: Prep the ship for docking, Felix, run maintenance and scary protocols, and Haley grab our gear.
[SPEAKER_04]: Robert, take us in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, I can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: The scapegoat's monitors switched to the Starboard bow camera, and Sibilin comes into view.
[SPEAKER_02]: A dull gray ball streaked with black, naked and exposed, with no cloud cover to speak of.
[SPEAKER_02]: A line of cargo ships circle the planet's gravity well as they patiently wait to land.
[SPEAKER_02]: Another line of ships burn away from the planet's surface towards the edge of the system, powering their spike drives for wherever their cargo is headed.
[SPEAKER_02]: All speakers across the ship click on with a headset, and Dr. Vass says.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sibilin, population, less than half a million, almost entirely researchers and support teams.
[SPEAKER_02]: The economy and infrastructure is completely focused on the discovery, excavation, and export enough handling artifacts, of which there are numerous.
[SPEAKER_02]: The planet is almost entirely bone-white deserts crisscrossed by ravines up to a kilometer deep.
[SPEAKER_02]: The most famous of which is known to explorers across the sector, as the gloom trenches.
[SPEAKER_02]: The 15 hour days are subject to scorching heat from siblings white dwarf, F-type star, named Shepherd.
[SPEAKER_02]: The day is reached upwards of 120 Fahrenheit, and the night's as low as 20 Fahrenheit.
[SPEAKER_02]: The air is breathable, poor short time, but is too thin for survival beyond a few hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gravity is a pleasant point 8G.
[SPEAKER_02]: You won't need environmental suits, but oxygen masks and tanks are crucial.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and uh, I scanned the planet's landing registries and froggy's friend Vera She seems to be stationed pretty far from the main sequence of docking towns So I guess the good news is we won't have to wait in the queue The bad news is fuel in that outback won't be cheap.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are there any bars?
[SPEAKER_05]: I wouldn't call any of what I'm seeing bars, no, lately Chin up we're gonna see Vera Vera
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert takes this game goes smoothly and to port, landing softly on the stand swept a lot of like-car research incorporated.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nearby, our three domed buildings of concrete topped with satellites and antenna, stacks of steel boxes are piled up along the lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: A loading bot, quietly moves about the boxes, stacking them neatly.
[SPEAKER_02]: The white desert of the planet stretches off to the horizon, where it meets the Indigo sky.
[SPEAKER_02]: You lower the hatch of the Steve Dough fasten on your oxygen mask.
[SPEAKER_02]: No environment is no necessary.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pick up your oxygen tanks and strap them to your back, and move out onto the sun-baked tarmac of the landing bot.
[SPEAKER_02]: birdsong and the sounds of insects around you immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a very lively place.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not at all what you pictured when you thought about the great desert world's thibiline.
[SPEAKER_02]: You thought it would be a dead world, but it's obvious that this is a planet full of flora and fauna just waiting to be discovered.
[SPEAKER_02]: The loading body ignores you as it moves past with a steel box.
[SPEAKER_02]: Almost stacking the box on Felix's foot, right in front of your ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then moving away.
[SPEAKER_05]: Watch it, Russ Buckett.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: God, it's hot out here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Felix, I'm pretty sure that was just your doctor buddy from the space gas station.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, uh, you're gonna try to make a pass outer?
[SPEAKER_05]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Also, that was not a robot in the space station.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was the story I told you last time that a robot tried to make it with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, that all that you're saying now is that this has happened multiple times.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's what I'm hearing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The accidental submarine team.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the robot at the gas station is in a robot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix, we can't keep all of your lovers straight.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're romantic.
[SPEAKER_02]: You probably leave a string of women across the world wherever you leave.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably across the entire galaxy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, froggy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that to Felix, but Dr. Vost, watch out.
[SPEAKER_00]: what do you mean watch out he has a tight it does he has a point and clearly it doesn't end well i mean that robot just ran over his foot at least it's a robot foot love hurt haha very funny assholes can we just get on with why we're here
[SPEAKER_02]: As you go back and forth, the only person that notices is Robert, you notice that a woman exists out of one of the dome's buildings.
[SPEAKER_02]: The woman starts to jog towards you.
[SPEAKER_02]: An oxygen mask clamped over her mouth, but she doesn't have it like strapped on.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's just holding it there with a hand, and her tank is slung casually over her shoulder.
[SPEAKER_02]: She jogs towards you.
[SPEAKER_02]: She has brown hair and blue eyes.
[SPEAKER_02]: She wears dark clothing and a wide grin hat.
[SPEAKER_02]: As she strides up, you can hear something muffled coming out from underneath the mask and as she gets closer and everyone realizes that someone's coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: You hear, hey, hey!
[SPEAKER_02]: Who do you think you are?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't just come down here and land on my lawn.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have three more days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Count them and she holds up a hand with three.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, well, hang on.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think there may be some sort of misunderstanding here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Miss understanding, I recognize a merchant, a merchant class ship when I see one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know who you're from.
[SPEAKER_02]: The auction is in three days.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you're probably gonna win the auction, but you haven't won it yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get off my property.
[SPEAKER_04]: As intriguing as this auction is, no, I think you have us mistaken.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I just your towards braggie who I assume is with us.
[SPEAKER_04]: I believe you know this man, Viera, is that you?
[SPEAKER_02]: and then it dawns on her.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see her face relax, and she says Reggie?
[SPEAKER_02]: And he says, yes, Vera and he embrace each other and give a big hug and she says, Reggie, I did it to go, whatever, speak to you again.
[SPEAKER_02]: When the exo net went down on what feast I thought that was it.
[SPEAKER_02]: How did you get off world?
[SPEAKER_03]: He just gestures vaguely at the four of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of just look around at the rest of the crew like Reggie?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, like Reggie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, it's a mouth of the word, Richie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it is Reggie, he justor's vaguely, you when he says, I met some people.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's fantastic to see you, Reggie, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of you, come in, come in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give you all a drink and we can catch up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Reggie, and they walk away, you know, arms around each other, chatting back and forth a mile a minute.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, Vera, we're going to need to learn way more about Reggie, although we're here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, so now you're interested in here, Robert.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he buried the lead.
[SPEAKER_06]: My board buried the lead.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's less interested to me now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Plus, I heard something about drinks and something about an auction.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, let's see what we can find out about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you all follow Vera and Reginald up to these concrete domes.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's three of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: She leads the way to one of the doorways and then she waits for you all to catch up.
[SPEAKER_02]: She looks at you, waits, looks at you, waits.
[SPEAKER_02]: You guys are talking amongst each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then you guys are walking and then talking.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's talking to Froggy.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's waiting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then when you guys finally catch up, she says it's very expensive to cool the insides of these things.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we all have to go in pretty quickly.
[SPEAKER_02]: She opens the door and you all move in and she snaps it up behind you.
[SPEAKER_02]: This windowless concrete dome feels subterranean and it feels very, very cool in here after being outside and like a hundred and five hundred ten degree heat.
[SPEAKER_02]: What a relief.
[SPEAKER_02]: It sort of has the feeling of an Arctic research station a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: You feel like you just came in from like a very hostile place, and now you're like safe in this little cocoon on the edge of the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: In here, there is a astov, a long sandstone table.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no art at all, and there's hardly any objects or anything else in here, but there are quite a few boxes as those things have been packed up.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the big steel crates is in here, and you can see that she's been like putting smaller boxes inside of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: She goes over to a water picture, and she pours everyone some water.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll take mine to go, so, uh, going somewhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, it hasn't been a good time here, but I mean, I'd rather hear about Reggie, Reggie, what have you been up to?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, we'd love to hear about Reggie's widow, Reggie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Reggie.
[SPEAKER_02]: What have you been up to?
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Froggy launches into a story, it seems like he's not going to catch up on everything since he left Wafisa, because up until just a few years ago, they were talking on the exo net apparent, so he basically tells her about how the radio tower broke down, he wasn't able to repair it, and then a couple of years later, you forced out, and Felix was able to repair it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those two years in the middle, he's sort of vague about he was living in the radio station.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was sometimes going to black harbor to like trade or like get food when needed.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he did a lot of scavenging and made a lot of friends with vagrants and other people living on the outskirts of society.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he seems to kind of like glaze all that over and he seems very resistant to giving any detail.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he finishes his story and says, yeah, so I've been living on the scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's air condition.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's warm when it needs to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's quiet.
[SPEAKER_02]: I get to be alone and I can just kind of, well, I live in the cargo bay.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's an access panel you can move aside and there's a space in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's roomy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like 10 by 10.
[SPEAKER_02]: The ceiling's only about four feet high.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I bring my food in there and so yeah me and Percy oh Percy's my cat me and Percy just hang out in there all the time and like like that's pretty much it That's my life really you've had a cat on ship
[SPEAKER_02]: Why did you get a cat?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know Percy?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really don't think we know a cat on our ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Percy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Percy's a great mouser.
[SPEAKER_02]: Haven't you noticed there aren't any rats on the ship?
[SPEAKER_02]: There weren't rats before.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're in space.
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy, did you bring rats on our ship?
[SPEAKER_02]: There were rats.
[SPEAKER_02]: There were rats, trust me, they were rats.
[SPEAKER_02]: You probably picked them up on Camiri 4.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, those were, we told you, probably, those were drift rats that was a gang.
[SPEAKER_05]: They weren't real rats.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I got us a cat because of all the rats.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where did you even get a cat?
[SPEAKER_02]: The truck stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just the first time hearing about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't do where no cats on the truck stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not after I was done with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Watch your, I think they had a, I think they had a litter.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they had a litter of cats in that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I chose the key to spawn.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Reginald, how many cats did you bring on to worship?
[SPEAKER_02]: I brought one cat.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many kittens?
[SPEAKER_02]: This was a kitten.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was a kitten and now it's a cat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, you know, Vera usually they're pretty quick, but I think I'm gonna have to teach them about the birds and the bees and things grow up things go from kitten to cat all the time I'm gonna have to oh my god.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is gonna wreak havoc with the ship with the water.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh I'm sorry, but like that if that truth that we had to go on at the fuel station
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a lot of crazy stuff there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I personally feel very affected still to this day by what we witnessed and we brought back a living creature.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if it's been touched by the void?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's gonna ask, have we done any like checks on this to make sure it's not a demon cat?
[SPEAKER_02]: I have done, I don't understand what you're talking about, but this is just a normal cat with four legs.
[SPEAKER_02]: six tails, two tongs, no kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: Vera, sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, we're so sorry to disturb you here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I've been to civil and before, honestly, this is turning out to be a far more interesting trip than the last one already.
[SPEAKER_00]: But um, do you have any alien artifacts?
[SPEAKER_00]: I understand that's a big thing here to help us figure out what is up with the cat that we apparently have.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh you want to know yeah I mean we have I don't I don't really she kind of looks at the rest of you and flooring like yeah we have alien artifacts they they're not going to be all the help you with your cat I look over at Felix and I'm like you know Felix I'm actually kind of relieved because when you told me froggy chewed through all those gourds in the cargo bay I thought something was really wrong with them but it's all starting to make sense now
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, hold on, no, Percy just chewed through those cables because she was eating.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: She hasn't done that in forever.
[SPEAKER_05]: Brody, we will deal with this when we get back to the scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, Robert, Percy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Also drink the orange juice.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not true, Percy doesn't like orange juice.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought you'd do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought you'd do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: We even got to the fuel station, Ailey.
[SPEAKER_00]: I tried.
[SPEAKER_05]: okay so listen listen let's not forget why we're here right we need fuel the option we need we need to wait man for froggy we need now you all and talk to your boss here would I to analyze the alien artifacts
[SPEAKER_02]: So just a reminder, AI is common, virtual intelligence is, don't exist.
[SPEAKER_02]: The orbit itself is an alien artifact that, like, her consciousness got trapped inside of.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know we haven't revisited that since, like, episode three or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I just want to, like, restate that she's a virtual intelligence, she's a straight-up consciousness transfer into this alien artifact.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stick.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you say that, and you kind of, like, produce the orb.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just the orb.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Vera goes,
[SPEAKER_02]: And the orb kind of like lights up a little bit as a tox.
[SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't always do that, but she can control like the lighting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So she does that when knowing this particular case.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I'm sorry for the intrusion.
[SPEAKER_02]: My name is Dr. Voss.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm afraid of two six to leave the ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is my proxy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has a camera, a microphone and speakers and Felix said he'd be kind enough to carry it around for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't miss out on everything that's happening on Siblin.
[SPEAKER_02]: I myself am a Zeno linguist and I just couldn't pass up the chance to see what you might have here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a rare treat for me and I'm very sad that I can't leave the ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: But wow, this research station is quite bare.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's happened?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I suppose it's my turn to catch Reginald up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Since we last spoke, the company fell on hard times.
[SPEAKER_02]: First, one, then two, then three locations were shut down.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were already a small company.
[SPEAKER_02]: Eventually, we were the only location left.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one Dixite.
[SPEAKER_02]: The whole C-suite was gone.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was just an owner.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he poured all the money he could into this Dixite trying to save the company.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just didn't work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Corporations come and go.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's putting the whole thing up for auction just a few days Which I cannot tell you how frustrating it is that just a few weeks ago We made our biggest discovery yet there are these buildings essentially these buildings from the alien race They're buried all over Stiblin in a bunch of polyfin as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure you know
[SPEAKER_02]: They're pretty hard to find, and they're very rarely found, most of them were found in the first year or two, but we found one, and we own it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's on our dick site, so we laid claim to it, but we can't open the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every trick that worked on Polyphen and on Siblin in years past, it's just not working with this door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Explosives have worked on some places that have been a bit more difficult to crack into, but we don't have the resources to uncover the entire building.
[SPEAKER_02]: And without doing that, we can't know if our explosives are going to harm something inside of there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just cannot take that risk.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd rather the company go under and a new team come in and crack the door open properly to make sure none of these artifacts are destroyed.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's incredibly frustrating.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've spent a few weeks trying to get in there and just I just can't, and if I could open that door and find some new artifacts that we could sell, the corporation could be saved.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can get you a good deal on a laser cutter.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's resistant.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know I don't I don't know why you want to save a Corpo.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I've never met a good one It just kind of just looks at you doesn't know what to say But what I'm hearing is valuable goods alien artifacts hidden away with that sounds attractive to me Plus a whole research station for sale.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can't can't forget about that The one I don't think we have the liquid assets to acquire a research station right now
[SPEAKER_05]: Not with that attitude.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's more than just a research station.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be all of Lycar corporation and all of its holdings.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably not going to go for very much, especially knowing what its actual value probably is.
[SPEAKER_02]: My guess is that we'll sell for 1.2, maybe 1.3 million.
[SPEAKER_05]: The Thornton list your hygiene stuff, you know, credits that I haven't seen.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we're better off focused on this alien, uh, building.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, maybe I'll scrape something together, but yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: We will check the building in the meantime.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, um, real quick, how much do you think our car is worth?
[SPEAKER_04]: To the right buyer, that's the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: First we have to find someone willing to buy it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if there's many roads on this planet, but there is probably like a wealthy business man lurking somewhere that would take it off world and enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is if we don't want to enjoy it ourselves anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: Unfortunately, the uh, the Loki bomb packs we have are not getting us anywhere close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Both, there's a Loki pond draft tournament, like, I don't know, you guys have been practicing on the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I think we could make one board do me a lot.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do have some basic trade goods that may be valuable this far out, but still nothing in that realm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Vost cuts in and says, you have to excuse my friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm afraid that if I could only leave the ship, I could probably keep them in order.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like wrangling up into cats sometimes.
[SPEAKER_02]: One cat.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't just have one cat on the ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have five.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is DJ Froggy, he's a regional less than a cat, where is he factoring her?
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy says, I'm not a cat at all, I own a cat, you can't see Vera, you can't say anything to them, they just don't get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm telling you, I'm the smartest person on the ship, easily, and they really look to me as like an older brother in a lot of ways.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we should leave him here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, I mean, Vera, he's totally right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you know he is the voice of the rebellion?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Reginald, you were telling me that you were getting your radio station into a position where you could start transmitting details about certain things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy says, oh, well, yeah, I didn't work out.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, didn't work out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix, fit the station that I got shot in the chest and I decided to leave with Fisa.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, you didn't really decide to leave.
[SPEAKER_05]: Probably we kind of were forced to take you on board with us because you were dead or dying But yeah, yeah, yeah, so now here anyway, boss cuts in again.
[SPEAKER_02]: It goes in
[SPEAKER_02]: What I wanted to ask you, Dira Vira, is if I could take a look at this doorway.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you know, linguist myself, if there's any sort of markings or anything, perhaps I can help.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, of course, none of these alien artifacts have power.
[SPEAKER_02]: If they could be powered, we wouldn't have this problem, but maybe I'll notice something, and you have a group of people who sort of by-trade now are explorers.
[SPEAKER_02]: They might notice something as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And...
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd be lying if I didn't say, I just want to see the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: He gets sounds fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I actually haven't seen one up close yet.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're like, five on the shit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, boss.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you, uh, it sounds like a real cool door.
[SPEAKER_06]: I definitely think we should explore it, but you don't have any hands.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what you're gonna do with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: the door, Robert.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to see it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You wouldn't understand, this is a pursuit of knowledge, this is the inquisitive mind, probing out for secrets unknown.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you also don't have eyes if I'm going to get all technical on the camera.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I'm very technical mind if you didn't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I have eyes, I'm on the, I'm, remember, I'm on the ship, sick, and I have two eyes, two, two ears.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've all the normal human parts on the ship, okay?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Robert, and I like elbow-ropper to the stomach.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right, sorry.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, that's great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dr. Voss, I think we should go look at the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can we also get some fuel?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we're here, Vera.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you have any fuel we could acquire from you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Reggie assured us that you would get us some fuel.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I didn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just shy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Vera says, uh, no, don't have any fuel here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, there's a port town nearby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Based on fuel, they'd be cheaper to just fly to the other side of the planet, but you could have to wait in the queue a couple days.
[SPEAKER_04]: That would get to this town, like, on foot, do you have some sort of transportation?
[SPEAKER_04]: You fly your ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, what to fly in there and get fueled up?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just, it's like an hour away.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you fly a few hours to the other side of the planet to the main trade hub, you'd have to wait in the queue for, like, a day or two?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it was a bad little con queue when we were up there thorned.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm not looking to go through any checkpoints right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, all right, better off paying the thou back fee.
[SPEAKER_05]: But before we go, I want to check out the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yes, yes, we know Doc.
[SPEAKER_02]: fear of nods and then because she doesn't seem like she's sure if Voss can see her nods she says yeah let's let's go finish her water and then let's head out we're all readying to head out I point at Frog and I go that feels coming out of your paycheck
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys are getting paychecks?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I was thinking, um, well, we've got out the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe Vera and Froggy, you too, can have some time to catch up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Robert, is a good wingman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, no, I'm going to show you where the door is.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't get any romantic feelings from the two of them at all.
[SPEAKER_05]: That makes it even more likely that Robert would try to force them to be together.
[UNKNOWN]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Vera's like, no, I'm going to show you where the door is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It'll be rolling around and greased together before we know it.
[SPEAKER_02]: How, how, how, that'll be Robert and his future love interest.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, he's showing them how, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he'll be like, let me take you to a little place called secondary four.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they have a good grease.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amy, come here for?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, do I mean, come here for?
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, Mary of four, I think is what I'm trying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come here, you're fewer.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, everyone gets their oxygen masks, everyone has full, basically still full oxygen tanks, because you were only outside for 20 minutes max.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she leads you out the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: How far is this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Our property is pretty small here.
[SPEAKER_02]: The dick sights are only a few minutes walk away.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you go outside, into the blasting, stipple and heat.
[SPEAKER_02]: The blue dwarf is just like blasting this like intense sundown on you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just illuminates this very high.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like you feel like you're getting sunburned within a few minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it makes sense that she's wearing long sleeves and gloves and a wide hat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then she leads you off to the dick site.
[SPEAKER_02]: You'll approach a essentially one acre by one acre area that's covered in holes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of them deep, some of them shallow, all of them marked with a bevy of different colored flags.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are steel ladders inside a bunch of the holes.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are crates outside of a bunch of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: These same steel crates that the construction bot was loading up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can see its tracks in the sand here as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's apparently been going back and forth and getting whatever is from this area and loading it up for transport off this planet.
[SPEAKER_02]: probably in preparation for the auction.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you lead you to a relatively untouched area of this acreage.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she says, well, we were working our way methodically through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we started in the Southwest corner, and we were going to end in the Northeast corner, and then we were going to find another plot, and another plot, and another plot.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of the plots around here are pretty much per sale.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're really far away from where the original alien artifacts were found.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's actually on the other side of the planet.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the pickings are pretty slim over here, usually you're just gonna find like this tray tool or maybe some ancient randomness, nothing like an entire building.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's really how we've been like carving out our distances by finding these tiny tools and like these markings, but then we found this and you crest a small rise to see down a smooth sand ramp, a steel
[SPEAKER_02]: Across the middle of it are sweeping symbols very tendril-like as they work their way across like a horizontal band in the middle of the door The door appears to be about 8 feet tall and this takes up probably 18 inches.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are no like dots or like individual like markings Like you'd see like on an eye or like a lowercase j and said it's more of like an uninterrupted cursive
[SPEAKER_02]: with extra like tendrils steeping off in like odd swirls and some underlines under like individual characters, none of it seems to make any sense to any of you, and you move forward towards that door.
[SPEAKER_06]: is from my mental image as in almost like an Arabic script.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd say that's accurate.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd say it's very Arabic-looking, cool, cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what you have instead is you have Arabic letters stacked on top of other Arabic letters to make an individual letter.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they're really tall intricate letters that are all 18 inches tall and they look like they need all of that space just to make all of the markings that are required for like one section.
[SPEAKER_02]: If it could even be called a letter, each marking might be one word, or maybe the aliens that created this place had no concept of letters and words, and this is something entirely different.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one's ever really tracked that code.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very little is known about the aliens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Almost essentially nothing, seven years have gone by, and there's just a lot of theories.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there's actually a lot of variants between different alien artifacts.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like they're from completely different eras, or even different species.
[SPEAKER_02]: except that there is one through line through every place that's been found and that's been this writing.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's been very confusing for the zeno archaeologists to sort of pinpoint exactly what this easiest is if they're even a species.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where they came from, where they went, why they're not here anymore, all of that is still a great mystery.
[SPEAKER_02]: I move up close to it, make sure Dr. Voss has good views of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was going to say luckily we have one of the finest zeono linguists that ever did exist.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dr. Vals, I mean Felix, Thorne, y'all see anything like this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've picked up quite a few languages in my day, but this is not like anything I've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, I mean, I know lots of different computer languages.
[SPEAKER_05]: This isn't like anything I've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_05]: You haven't digitally.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, what about you and your travels?
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I haven't met a closed or that couldn't be fixed with explosions of some kind.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, no, I haven't seen anything like this or run into this particular problem recently.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that language doesn't feel like it's from the void.
[SPEAKER_02]: Various sons.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the second time you've said something like that to her.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is going on?
[SPEAKER_02]: What is the void?
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't worry about a fairer.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you when you're late.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's avoid talking about that right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and Vostor's Felix, can you hold me up?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to see the door a bit closer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I've got to hold her up and slowly move her around, like where the ride it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ugh, stop I'm getting nauseous.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just keep me stationary if you feed away from the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Be more specific this time, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ugh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: This writing, yeah, it's the same writing we've seen on another planet's polyphen, wofitha, it's standard, we'd never quite crack did I see many letters here that were, you know, letters hence his words, thoughts, feelings, expressions, whatever they may be.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm noticing the same patterns I've seen before, so when I think back to some of these patterns, in the places I've seen them on wofitha and polyphen, well, it's likely this is a place of healing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of these markings are exclusive to places we found that on the inside appeared to have something to do with medical needs, emergency attention, POSPIS care, at least to our interpretation, which we got inside.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does anyone else hear that or is that just interference with my speakers?
[SPEAKER_05]: You hear what?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't feel right.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'd come back to the ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't have us.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_02]: I-I-I-I-I don't feel right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I don't feel normal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or I do feel normal.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do feel-I feel right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel more right than I did before.
[SPEAKER_02]: This body feels normal.
[SPEAKER_02]: For the first time, I can feel...
[SPEAKER_02]: Something in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Connecting with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's sudden like the door slides open.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're doing a black corridor that slowly lights up with a blue luminance that seems to come from everywhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yet nowhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: M-L-R, what did you do?
[SPEAKER_02]: Various steps forward and says, oh my god, this is incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: This might be the first example of alien technology actually activating.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have no idea what this means.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it means it's time for us to check out what's in here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hope it means some kind of additional compensation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, he has, of course, this is all going to make us rich.
[SPEAKER_04]: BEAR HERE!
[SPEAKER_02]: Extremely rich, but more than that.
[SPEAKER_02]: The research potential is unfathomable.
[SPEAKER_02]: This might be the greatest discovery of our lifetimes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she reads it over and she grabs Robert Ross and starts swinging him around in her exuberance.
[SPEAKER_06]: Our god, I absolutely fear it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, um, now because currently your corporation is not worth a damn penny And but y'all need a little bit of technology would you say this discovery might be worth a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know at least one point two million
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is going to save the company, uh, well wait, the discovery of the door doesn't mean anything, we can't sell that, it's just going to make Veradine rich, they're probably going to win the auction, I don't have time to study the door, I don't have time to figure out anything about this, what we need to do, what I need to do is get in there and find something to sell very quickly, and if it's a powered on item, it would be, it would be
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you were more than we could imagine, I can imagine quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you think it would be right that Verradon would get that compensation or would someone as brilliant as yourself?
[SPEAKER_06]: My potentially be the person who deserve this discovery.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, I don't know, but I can tell you what I do know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have three days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm gonna go back to the research station I'm gonna grab some equipment and I'm going in right now Three days is hardly enough for the discovery of a lifetime even if I lose everything at least I've had the experience of seeing all of this first
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know we're trying to get out of here quickly, but there's no way we can walk away from this now.
[SPEAKER_04]: The potential profit is, uh, just I can't, I need a minute.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just gonna, I'm gonna walk a couple steps away and just kind of crouch down, but it's an average one is needs, it doesn't deep press.
[SPEAKER_06]: I also need a minute go over to Thorne and look him in the eyes and say we can't let her separate, we can't let her go back and quote unquote get some equipment and potentially phone there or down or anybody else.
[SPEAKER_06]: This has to be us if we want to make any money elements.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe we should have someone go with her just to make sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: Avira, before you go get your equipment, Robert wants to just make sure that you don't run into any trouble on the way, so he's going to go with you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, Robert?
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, definitely not too dumb for this task.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can lift some of the stuff I need.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sprints off across the stands.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't let her out of your sight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Damn chance y'all y'all y'all get to exploring well froggy's there with you and he's like man This is gonna be so much fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait to see what's in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow Vira was really happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you see how happy she was?
[SPEAKER_04]: We're all happy for Aggie.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm working here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's not what I heard.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't I thought we were gonna go But I were gonna go in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks looks fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks like there's a cool stuff probably alien stuff, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'm hearing cool
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, Vera leads you back to the research station.
[SPEAKER_02]: She picks up a really heavy, like, explorers band of there and hands it off to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has like a flash light, multi tool, a bunch of, like, like, flares, random other stuff that she needs, a bunch of ropes, stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she says, hey, put this on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, would be, uh, I, yes, I do before I do, I check it for any potential booby traps and then slap it on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah, you give it a quick look.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a normal bandalayer.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am so uncomfortably close to this woman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where is all this suspicion coming from?
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to know what was supposed to mean.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what's going through Robert's head with Vira He thinks she's gonna call Vira Dine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I did she blew the trap her own equipment Well, yeah, her name's written over time
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bell dearly.
[SPEAKER_03]: And at this black-round spear with the string coming out of it, don't worry about the hissing sound.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just hold it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: She wants to save this business.
[SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't want Vera dying to have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: She picks up some, like, another, like, a work tool belt, and she replaces her wide brim tat for a hard hat with a light on the front, and she says, okay, I think that's all we need.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she sprints out the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: Amazing, where you are a wonder, let's square dance on back to that door.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like a mile ahead of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: She spreads out the door and you're just in an empty room being like, Vera, you son of a gun.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're talking to yourself.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just sitting there doing a little jig, dulling, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you follow her and in front of the door, once again,
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're all welcome to come with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a hell of a time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have my crew.
[SPEAKER_02]: We already laid all of them off.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm actually the only employee left in the company besides that construction bot and the owner of course who isn't here So I could certainly use your help and I could certainly Once we've made some money the owner would be happy to pay you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure Till we figure out what secrets this place holds consider us your interim crew
[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, while you were gone, I already took the liberty of writing something up, and then I hand her of the contract and a pen.
[SPEAKER_02]: She takes the contract from you looking puzzle then says, What's this?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's just a little something that says, our little group, scapegoat LLC, is working under your supervision, and that we're entitled to a small percentage of the sale of any discoveries at that auction.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I can make a trade hole for that if you want.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, very clever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's have you do a trade ent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's an 11.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so you can absolutely crush that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So she quickly stems the document.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does it really see anything suspicious?
[SPEAKER_02]: So she's starting to quickly and gives you back the contract and the company.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, nothing underhanded.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just figure this is even better than discussing the pavement later.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so I take the contract, I sign it, I rip off the carbon copy, and give it back to where we're both our signatures on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, tell us what you need.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, wonderful, wonderful, um, let's, that's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: She takes the rope off of Robert, and she says, this is too much wait for one person, and she hands it to Haley.
[SPEAKER_02]: She goes, strap that across your chest, and then she goes on her own, like, work belt, and she takes a bundle of flares, and hands a few to Felix and a few to Thorne.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's good boss.
[SPEAKER_02]: When it'd be fun if she was like, and my laser rifle froggy, you could have this.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Robert, you hold this large cartoon bomb.
[SPEAKER_00]: I honestly believe she might.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, she doesn't have a laser rifle.
[SPEAKER_05]: So well before we move in I'm gonna kind of look down it at Oara and like ask Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah, thanks for asking Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I only have one thing that I know in that is that I need to go in there It's like it's like having never breathed before and now I'm finally breathing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to understand what that means
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, well, if anything gets too much for you, if you'll weird in a bad way, let me know.
[SPEAKER_05]: I will feel it's thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the... or... five, six, seven of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: The seven of you move off down the dark hallway.
[SPEAKER_06]: And who's in front?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, she was, oh, it's froggy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here is like, power walking.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's so excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like a kitten candy shop.
[SPEAKER_00]: We gotta get in front of her because I'm gonna, I'm gonna stick, it's close to Vera.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm talking because these two I do not trust them but I appreciate you when Robert but I appreciate their excitement I feel like if she gets to far ahead Robert tackles her and he's like she's gonna call Vera Dine or she Cartoon bomb I said ever since the cultists on the station we've all been a little high strumming
[SPEAKER_02]: So it sounds like you guys are fully prepared and moving into the XO site, potentially the first powered XO site in the history of the sector.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, that's all our time for tonight, so we will have to save that exploration for another time.
[SPEAKER_04]: When I first heard that froggy, oh sorry, Reggie's friend was into Zeno's stuff, I thought, and couldn't hurt him meter while we resupply, but damn it if this didn't turn into quite the little opportunity.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll admit it, I'm excited, a big auction to sell off a newly discovered alien exo site.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is the kind of business young thorn always dreamed about.
[SPEAKER_04]: We gotta be careful about this though.
[SPEAKER_04]: Vera seems nice enough, it was lucky that she was so willing to strike a deal.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, whatever treasure is waiting inside is officially partially ours.
[SPEAKER_04]: Plus, this contract might help us out in the long run.
[SPEAKER_04]: You'd be surprised what a little red tape can do in the right hands.
[SPEAKER_04]: If we manage to find anything good in there, that is.
[SPEAKER_04]: The sights of how you is going to skyrocket if we do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Still, I'm worried.
[SPEAKER_04]: Despite our serendipity, there's still something gnawing at me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Haley's been distance and scrap jacks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Robert's been avoiding the subject.
[SPEAKER_04]: Voss acting weird now, I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's more than alien ruins hiding under the surface of all of this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just hope we can keep the upper hand.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's way too early to start counting our money.
[SPEAKER_04]: all that's left is for escape, go LLC to get to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd say this is a near repeat of the last time I was on Stablein, help a Corpo, find something value, guard some suits.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here on the escape coat, we got a new normal, and it's alien technology, after that experience with the void, super excited to be back at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Note no disrespect to Vera or Vos.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just still dealing with the whole
[SPEAKER_00]: I would rather not run into that again, but you know, we signed up for this mission, and we're going to see it through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thorne's right!
[SPEAKER_00]: We could use the money that we're going to get from this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we'll get some ship upgrades, like better crew quarters, maybe some updates to this surveillance system, because honestly, how did we miss a cat?
[SPEAKER_00]: And what else is braggie hiding?
[SPEAKER_06]: I was really hoping for a normal stop.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, after the void, I figured we'd maxed out our weird stuff happening.
[SPEAKER_06]: Guess not?
[SPEAKER_06]: And I were poking around an alien side, an active one apparently.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like that, not at all.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Vera, she knows more than she's telling us.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I get it, she's excited.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do data, new discoveries?
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe even saving her company.
[SPEAKER_06]: Desperation makes people do ugly things.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've seen men stab their own sword brothers in the back, but trip people they swore they'd never turn home.
[SPEAKER_06]: Braugina, we've had our mom's show, but he doesn't deserve that.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's still got some light left in him, and I'm not letting anybody snuff that out.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got his back.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can record him, that's loud, like a little brother.
[SPEAKER_06]: But if someone else tries it, it's watching themselves, oh, hell no.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then Vals, loves riding to the door, pops open.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's going to be another one.
[SPEAKER_06]: Buckle up, Buttercup.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I can't say I was expected to be one of the first people to ever enter a powered alien facility, but, uh, damn, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, since nobody is ever encountered, powered artifacts before, we just have no idea what kind of computer systems were electronic engineering these beings had dreamed up.
[SPEAKER_05]: We already know that we're capable of just amazing things thanks to, well, Dr. Voss' sheer existence.
[SPEAKER_05]: so who knows what else we might find here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there could be new methods of physical augmentation, AIs, or BIs that hold the answers to what happened to this civilization, maybe even a way to restore PD to get him out of that virtual hell he's trapped in.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know I can't count on it, but it is hard not to get my hopes up.
[SPEAKER_05]: But right now, I just need to keep an eye on Alara.
[SPEAKER_05]: different, I have to make sure she's day safe no matter what, especially considering she might be our only way out of this place.
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